On Monday, 12 May 2014 at 21:54:51 UTC, Xavier Bigand wrote:
I don't really understand why there is no parser with something like slices in a language without GC. It's not possible to put the array to a more globally place, then the parser API will use 2 indexes instead of the buffer as parameter?
Slices are counterproductive if you want to provide standard-compliant xml implementation, i.e. unescape strings. It also requires more memory to hold entire xml document and can't collect nodes, which became unused. Usually xml parsers use a string table to reuse all repetitive strings in xml, reducing memory requirements.
